Full Coverage: Geopolitics

30.08.2006

Balochistan Province

It was reported that fighter jets and helicopters attacked the south western province of Balochistan, killing some 37 government opponents, including a former governor and chief minister of the province, Sardar Akbar Khan Bugti.

25.08.2006 The U.S. government's announcement that it will review the possibility of limiting, suspending, or withdrawing trade preferences under the General System of Preferences (GSP) to three Latin American countries—Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela—is political pressure...

25.08.2006 Esta es una historia de globalización, sus ecos, sus repiques y sus consecuencias. Trata de vetas minerales, capital y capitalistas, economía, política, empleos y recursos naturales. Los personajes aparecen en Bolivia, Brasil, la India y hasta en Uruguay.

23.08.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 23 (OneWorld) - The human rights group Amnesty International is appealing decisions by the United States government to withhold as secret information detailing the incarceration of so-called ghost detainees as part of the Bush administration's self-styled "war on terror."

22.08.2006 En la época en que Fidel Castro Ruz entró a la Universidad, Cuba vivía momentos de gran efervescencia política, la corrupción administrativa y el fraude eran las características más notables de los gobiernos de turno.

21.08.2006 NEW YORK, Aug 21 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration is facing fierce criticism across India for backing the Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola companies in their fight with local authorities and consumer groups.

18.08.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 17 (OneWorld) - Twenty-one former generals and high ranking national security officials have called on United States President George W. Bush to reverse course and embrace a new area of negotiation with Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. In a letter released Thursday, the group told reporters Bush's 'hard line' policies have undermined national security and made America less safe.

08.08.2006 It's a good thing Tony Blair was still at home Saturday as tens of thousands of demonstrators showed up to demand he restore their country's integrity over issues of war and peace. Anuradha Vittachi was there.

04.08.2006 The Pentagon seems to have understood the risks posed to the continuity of United States dominance by social movements in Latin America. The option of militarizing societies serves two aims : it guarantees control of natural resources and protects governments so as to block social movements' progress.

04.08.2006 Todo parece indicar que la suerte de los ciudadanos de a pie en lo que respecta al debate sobre el Proyecto del Tercer Juego de Esclusas y de los supuestos beneficios que se derivarían del mismo está echada...

04.08.2006 As heavy fighting continued on Thursday between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil rebel militants, to gain control over an irrigation sluice near Trincomalee port, fears are growing over the fate of a ceasefire brokered by Norway in 2002.

03.08.2006 Los presidentes del Mercosur decidieron crear, durante la Cumbre Presidencial del Mercosur, en Córdoba, un Observatorio de Derechos Humanos y Democracia.